The Seductive Promises of Counterfeit CULTures

The thing is, is that the forces of centralization are running up against entropy. Decentralization is a fact of our future. It will be.

What remains to be written is the level of federalism, but we can rest assured regional autonomy will be near total.

A problem, of course, is the time frame. But I am a big believer of just starting to do things because they are inevitable. It is inevitable we will all spend much more energy gardening, so we might as well start gardening now.

Hi Ashvin,

Again to quote the good Dr Gall:

“Systems are like babies: once you get one, you have it. They don’t go away. On the contrary, they display the most remarkable persistence. They not only persist; they grow. And as they grow, they encroach…
…
SYSTEMS TEND TO EXPAND TO FILL THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

That this outcome does not occur in fact is due to the existence of various inhibitory forces.” (caps in original) (From: John Gall, 2002, “The Systems Bible”, p.17.)

The ‘various inhibitory forces’ in this case being nature… but I imagine a ‘new regime’ might well appear, one that might think it will ‘last a thousand years’, but on natures daily time scales even this is but a millisecond.

L,
Sid.

Hi Ash,

Just a clarification from my POV… “Selfless” is not a good thing. Caring for others EQUAL to oneself is the only attribute that will lead to peace, harmony and prosperity over time.

One needs to have a healthy sense of self – exactly equal to their sense of other people… which should also be healthy.

I bet that’s probably the concept you meant when you used the word “selfless,” but it can easily be misconstrued as valuing others as more worthy than oneself.

I believe that view is quite unhealthy.

IMHO, a paradigm of equality is where it is at longer term.

ashvin post=4815 wrote: [quote=TheTrivium4TW post=4811]
IMHO, a paradigm of equality is where it is at longer term.

Hey Triv,

I agree, one should not diminish oneself. The Golden Rule counts as “selfless” in my book.

Hi Ash, I thought so, however, I’m pointing out that “selfless” is a word that will confuse some of your audience as it implies, well, “self” and “less.”

What you think it means isn’t very important, it is what your readers will think it means. Some will “get it,” others will not.

My kid read a biography on Socrates. I asked him to tell me about Socrates. He said, “He thought a lot.” I asked what he thought about. “Words.”

The kid of 1,000 words, I know. 😉

Then it was made even more clear that one of the most powerful manipulation tools the social engineers use to manipulate the proles are the building blocks of the language itself.

In almost all instances, words/phrases like communism, free market, democracy, republic, capitalism and socialism are used incorrectly and confuse the listener(s).

None of those words or ideas express the truth of the world we live in – each is an engineered deception to prevent the proles from realizing the truth.

More accurate words are plutocracy, fascism, soft oligarch controlled dictatorship, hard oligarch controlled dictatorship and corporatocracy.

But the accurate words reveal the truth – and the truth is bad. So the false narrative is repeated over and over and over – even by well meaning people who are just reflecting the false narrative that inundated them throughout their lives.

The system promotes the lies… Since people don’t want the hassles that go along with the truth, they are apt to not only accept the lies, but embraces the lies.

Words are important – Socrates had some incredible insight when he made it a priority to simply sit back and meditate on the meaning of words, the building blocks of language, and how they could be used to create a false reality that benefits the dictators (be they soft or hard).

I guarantee you the average duped Republican envisions something far, far, far different than the average duped Democrat when the word “socialism” is expressed. Same word – very, very different meanings. That’s a very big problem and the [D]elites benefit from proletariat confusion.

I’m not immune from using words that fall short of my intended meaning. I created the term Debt Dollar Tyranny, but RE pointed out that wasn’t accurate as more than the dollar is effected by debt money fraud. He suggested Debt Money Tyranny was more accurate.

That’s the term I use now – Debt Money Tyranny – because it is simply more accurate and will result in less confusion.

You guys all want to play by the same social system rules, albeit different set of rules to what we have now. How about something completely different…

Through the short term pain we learn that the only way to organise ourselves is through a significantly heightened sense of service to humanity and the planet – our values attached to individualism is reduced in direct correlation to the devaluing of our egos.

Use that as your golden rule and John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ starts to ring true. Don’t need boundaries, just respect. Don’t need money, just trust. Don’t need a war either BTW. There is no rule out there that says we need to go down pain street for a long time.

How about we use this pressure cooker experience to evolve rather than at best stay the same (only smaller) or devolve a 1000 years or so.